Machine for carroting furs.



No. 839,550. PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906. A. GHAPAL.

MACHINE FOR GARROTING PURS.

APPLICATION FILED APB/1.1906.

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PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

A. GHAPAL.

MACHINE FOR GARROTING FURS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.7.1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec.25, 1906.

Application filed April 7, 1906. Serial. No. 310.527.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANToNIN CHAPAL, a citizen of the United States, residin in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county 0 Kings, in the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Carroting Furs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, as its title indicates, relates to a machine for carroting fur to be used in hat-making; and the object of the invention is to provlde a simple and inexpensive machine which combines handwork with machineworkthat is to say, the skin will be held and manipulated by hand, while the machine automatically supplies and ap lies the carroting liquid to the fur thereon. 1V cans are provided for supplying the liquid asneeded for regulating the depth the brush-fiber dips into the liquid and for regulating the overflow In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention. Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3'is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section taken in the plane indicated by line a in Fig. 1.

1 designates an open frame provided with legs 2, and in this frame is rotatively mounted a cylindrical brush 3, the brush ortion of which should be of a vegetable "her. the projecting journal 4 of the rotating brush are pulleys 5, through which the brush is driven from a pulley 6 on a counter-shaft 7 above, with the aid of a belt 8. The brush rotates in the direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 3.

Mounted in the frame is a tank or receptacle 9 to contain the carroting liquid (L in Fig. 4,) into which the fibrous portion of the brush dips sli htly. The receptacle 9 is made adjustabfi: up and down by means of four screws 10 screwing through nuts 11 in the frame and having seats at their upper ends in socket-plates 12, secured to the under side of the receptacle. By means of these screws the receptacle may be leveled up or tilted; as desired, and also be adjusted up and down to determine the depth of immersion of the tips of the brush-fiber in the liquid. The liquid is supplied to the tank 9 from a suitable reservoir 13 of any kind in quantity as desired.

Mounted on the frame 1 at the back is an inclined splash-board 14, having a hood formed of a top board 15 and side boards 16.

On the frame in front is an inclined shield 17 which extends upwardly over the front part of the brush and protects the workman in a good degree from the acidulated liquid used. The liquid which may accumulate on the under side of this shield will flow back into the. tank 9, as will also that thrown up on the splash-board 14.

The operation will be as follows: The machine having been set in operation andP -th pro er amount of liquid su plied to the tank 9, the workman applies t e skin to the brush with the fur down, being careful to shift it about in a -manner to bring all the fur in contact with the brush and to pressit down with his fingers in order to exertthe desired pressure as the work proceeds. As the fur on the skins is thus treated the latter are laid by to thoroughly dry before the fur is sheared ofi. The liquid will of course be gradually exhausted by its application to the fur, and this waste is supplied or made good from the reservoir, from which the liquid runs or'trickles in small quantity; Should the liquid flow in faster than it is used up, the quantity in the tank 9 can rise no higher than the overflow 18, from which it may be caught in any suitable receptacle and returned to the reservoir.

Heretofore, so far as known, when machines have been employed or proposed for carroting furs the idea has been to effect the whole operation automaticallythat is, to apply the fur (on the skin) to the brush automatically. This has not given good results, and the machines are relatively very expensive. I have found that some part of the work may be done automatically with good results; but the application of the fur to the brush requires careful and skilled manipulation, which cannot be satisfactorily supplied by mechanism,

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim 1. A machine for the purpose specified, having a frame, a rotating brush mounted in said frame, and exposed above so that the;

skin maybe applied thereto, a tank under the brush to contain the carroting liquid, and provided with an overflow-outlet, means for moving said tank up and down for regulating the extent of immersion of the brush, and means for supplying the liquid to the tank gradually as it is used.

2. A machine for the purpose specified, having a frame, a brush rotatively mounted in said frame, means for rotating said brush, meansvfor supplying the liquid gradually to 10 a. shield 17 in front of and extending up over said tank. the front of said brush, a, hooded splash- In witness whereof I have hereunto signed I board 14 on the frame back of the brush, four my name, this 6th day of April, 1906, in the upright screws 10, mounted in the frame, a presence of two subscribing witnesses. tank 9 to receive the carroting liquid and I ANTONIN CHAPAL. house the lower part of the brush, said tank Witnesses:

having an overflow-outlet 18 and. sockets 12 WILLIAM J. FIRTH,

which receive the ends of the screws 10, and 1 H.,G. HOSE. 

